And having spent the day with him a bit back... you get the impression that he's the kind of guy who'd be happy in the garage with the door shut cutting/sawing/chopping metal like the rest of us rather than being told where to stand/what to do next/where to look by a bunch of guys with clip boards.

You pegged him Bad Cat. Just hope he can continue to handle the world he is in now without flipping out.

That's Mike Yeman's rig. I met him in Arkansas at the national and 2 weeks later he stopped by to see me in N. California with that rig, his wife and son on it towing a tent trailer. He hand built that whole rig himself including the leading link front end. Not bad for an Insurance Salesman from Ohio.